OCA provides financial support on a quarterly basis for international projects involving Norwegian artists and/or cultural producers. Applications are accepted from Norwegian artists, international artists living and working in Norway and non-profit organizations. Priority is given to exhibitions taking place in key international art institutions and project spaces. Support is also extended to solo and group exhibitions organized by international curators, as well as to Norwegian art professionals organising exhibitions and projects abroad.

OCA has implemented an online application system for applications for the International Support Programme. This system should be used for the 2010 Third Quarter Application Review, with a deadline of 15 September. The further and final Quarter Application deadline for 2010 will be 1 November.

Click here for more information on International Support and the application process.

For any questions regarding the application, please contact Anne Charlotte Hauen at anne.charlotte.hauen@oca.no. For international institutional applications and biennials, please address your questions to Paul Brewer at paul.brewer@oca.no.

The Office for Contemporary Art Norway is pleased to announce 'BIG SIGN – LITTLE BUILDING', a group exhibition scheduled at OCA from 15 September through 15 December 2010. Natural beauty as a concept primarily located within the phenomenon of landscape was significantly transformed by the process of societal modernisation that took place in the twentieth century. The experience of landscape consequently shifted from the Kantian category of the sublime to a space in which the experience of landscape became mediated by a human and technological mastery over nature. Curated by Marta Kuzma, 'BIG SIGN…LITTLE BUILDING' invites a wider discussion about the expanded temporal and spatial field for cultural production resulting from these shifts. The exhibition departs from and extends beyond a seminal project developed by the architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour, who, in their book Learning from Las Vegas (1972), drew from existing critiques of urban space at the time to explore the role that signs played in providing order to the landscape. 'BIG SIGN – LITTLE BUILDING' exhibits, for the first time, the original glass lantern slides used by Steven Izenour for his academic lectures together with works by artists who transformed drafts, surveys, maps, and manuals into cultural artifacts, creating a new genre for cultural production at the time. Through the work of Allan D'Arcangelo, Claes Oldenburg,Charlotte Posenenske, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson, and Jeff Wall, among other archival materials and publications, the exhibition integrates projects that revised interpretations of landscape, building, and monument. The exhibition reflects upon how these artists and architects attempted to dislocate traditional interpretations of these concepts in an effort to generate a critical dialogue around the effects of power inscribed in public information generated by the city and by the hierarchies, standardisations, and space-time relationships effected by corporate development.

Click here for more information.

Wednesday, 25 August / 19:00

at the Munch Studio – Ekely
Jarlsborgveien 16
Map to the Munch Studio

Transport from Nedre gate 7 at 18:30

The Office for Contemporary Art Norway is responsible for the Norwegian participation in the Platform China Residency, Beijing, People's Republic of China; the International Studio Program Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany; the Residency Berlin Mitte, Berlin, Germany; the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, NY, USA; the Platform Garanti Istanbul Residency Program, Istanbul, Turkey; the International Artist in Residency Programme at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium; Capacete, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil.

OCA accepts applications for these programmes. Click here for more information.

Upcoming Residents

Artist residency 2010/11: Eline Mugaas
b.1969 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo

Eline Mugaas works primarily with the media of photography and video to examine urban spaces and vernacular architecture. Mugaas brings forth a web of connections between different images that combine the private and subjective with topographic depictions of urban environments and architecture. Recently, her work has been shown at Bergen Kunsthall and Preus Museum, Horten, Norway. Her film Skin Flick will be screened at MoCAV Novi Sad, Serbia in July 2010. Mugaas also participates in the zineAlbum, produced with with Elise Storsveen.

Curator residency 2010: Elisabeth Byre
b.1971 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo

Elisabeth Byre is an independent curator based in Oslo, Norway. Byre has been the curator of the independent gallery spaces Projekt 0047 in Berlin (2005-06) and 0047, Oslo. Recent exhibitions include 'Lessons in the Art of Falling – Photographs of Norwegian Performance and Process Art 1966-2009', co-curated with Jonas Ekeberg at Preus Museum, Horten; 'Storyteller – Organizing Time and Space', at 0047, Oslo; and 'Ghost in the Machine', curated with Susanne Ø. Sæther at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. Together, they established the curatorial platform Sæther&Byre. Byre is an alumna from CuratorLab, a postgraduate curatorial program at Konstfack, Stockholm, and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, and holds an MA in Film Studies from the University of Copenhagen. Byre is the director of the BFA program at the National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, and is a consultant for KORO/Public Art Norway.

Upcoming Resident

Resident September/November 2010
Dag Nordbrenden
b.1971 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo

Dag Nordbrenden is an Oslo-based artist working with photography. His work demonstrates an interplay between different genres of the medium. Lately he has been working with singular images that are less pre-contextualised. Many of these can be viewed in relation to personal experience photographs that vary between snapshot-observations and still life-oriented scenes. The regaining of interest in the more autonomous image is evident. So is the playing around with how these photographs influence each other in combination. His latest exhibitions include the solo show 'Rub with Ashes' at Galerie Opdahl in Berlin and 'A Member of the Wedding' a show curated by Susanne Winterling at Daniel Reich Gallery in New York. He is currently working on a book project that will be published towards the end of 2010. This exhibition is supported by 03–funding*

Upcoming Resident

Resident September/December 2010: Anders Smebye
b.1975 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo

Anders Smebye's work involves satire, regressions and misreadings to comment on cultural decay and decadence. Oddities and deities are scrutinised, often ending up as dysfunctional representations with a discharged symbolism. Smebye was educated at Chelsea College of Art, London; Universität der Kunste, Berlin and the Royal Academy of Art, Oslo, where he graduated in 2004. Recently he directed the project space Bastard and curated 'Provins - Ulf Aminde and Bruno Nagel' at UKS, 'Robert Smithson' at Fotogalleriet (co-curated with Lina Viste Grønli), and 'Monumento Mori' at Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo. Recent exhibitions include 'Devolution', UKS, Oslo; 'The White on the Summit Is Not Snow, but Volcanic Ash or Dust', Landings Projectspace, Vestfossen; 'Excavations', Sure Shore, Malibu State Beach, California, USA; 'Exfiltration I – XII', Snowball Editions, Market, Stockholm, Sweden; 'The Agony and the Exstacy' (with Martin Skauen), GrimMuseum, Berlin, Germany; 'Strips and Steel', Office of Contemporary Anarchy, Podium, Oslo and 'Fulgura Frango', Høvikodden Live, (with Nils Bech), Henie Onstad, Oslo. He is working on the project, Mission Creep, for NoInput Books (ed. James Hoff).

Upcoming Residents

September/October 2010: Anne Guro Larsmon
Artist b.1981 in Finnskogen, lives and works in Oslo

Anne Guro Larsmon was educated at Bergen National Academy of the Arts and Konstfack in Stockholm. A playful exchange of ideas and concepts is at the core of her practice, which involves drawing, painting, collage and sculpture. Larsmon is exploring structure, systems and materiality whilst negotiating these elements with narrative, expressionism and intuition. Her work often deals with traces in some way. They represent the process of remembering, repeating and working through past events, atmospheres and influences. This process is heavily influenced by Larsmon's upbringing in the woods, a place for mythologies, rituals and solitude. Recent group shows includes 'We are the world', Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago; 'Tempo som tanke – byrom som skisse', Telemark Kunstnersenter, Skien; and 'Post Puberty' (in collaboration with Emma Wright), Podium, Oslo. She was recently awarded an artist studio residency by the Arts Council of Oslo at Rådmannsgården.

For more information on OCA's Residency Programmes, please click here or contact Paul Brewer at paul.brewer@oca.no.

OCA's International Studio Programme Oslo (ISP) is available for international artists and curators by invitation, independently or in connection with research in Norway.

Click here for information on the International Studio Programme Oslo.

Goshka Macuga
Artist b. 1967 in Warsaw, Poland, live and works in London, UK

Goshka Macuga attended Wojciech Gerson School of Art in Warsaw, Central Saint Martins School of Art, London and Goldsmiths College, London. She merges the roles of collector, curator and artist, creating carefully staged, mixed-media installations that draw on the conventions of the historical archive and exhibition making. Her installations play with historic objects and documents creating complex networks of reference, they are poignant reminders of the profound relation between aesthetics and politics. Macuga's solo exhibitions include, 'The Nature of The Beast' (2009-10), Whitechapel Gallery, London; 'I Am Become Death' (2009), Kunsthalle Basel; 'Objects in Relation, Art Now' (2007), Tate Britain London; 'Sleep of Ulro' (2006), Liverpool. Group exhibitions include the 53rd Venice Biennale, 'Fare Mondi/Making Words…', Venice; 'The Great Transformation: Art and Tactical Magic', Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin; 'Martian Museum of Terrestial Art', Barbican Art Gallery, London; 'The British Art Show', Baltic. She has also participated in the the 27th São Paulo Biennial (2006) and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2008.

Lars Laumann to exhibit within
'International 10: Touched'
6th Liverpool Biennial
Curator: Lewis Biggs
Director, Liverpool Biennial
Liverpool, UK
18 September–28 November 2010
Press Opening: 16 September
Press and Professional Preview: 17 September

Lewis Biggs, Artistic Director of the Liverpool Biennial has invited Lars Laumann to exhibit within 'International 10: Touched', as part of the 2010 Liverpool Biennial. According to the curator, 'the curatorial team for 'Touched' has investigated materiality, metaphor, duration, embodiment, family, narrative, separation, desire, attachment, craft, compulsion, viscerality, neurosis and, especially, emplacement. We've been touched in the head and in the gut; and we've traced the trajectory of a feeling from a sensation in the hand to an emotion in the heart. We have felt the beauty of proximity'. Within 'Touched', Lars Laumann will present The Evil Apartment, a new video-work co-commissioned by the Liverpool Biennial and the New Museum in New York, NY, where it will be shown as part of the exhibition 'Free'. The Evil Apartment is a follow-up to Laumann's previous work Kari & Knut in which the artist appropriated video from Darius Mehrjui's Pari, an Iranian film adaptation of J.D. Salinger's novel Franny and Zooey. 'Touched' will take place from 18 September to 28 November and will exhibit works by Sachiko Abe, Daniel Bozhkov, Nina Canell,Alfredo Jaar and Franz West.

For press enquiries related, please contact Catharine Braithwaite at cat@we-r-lethal.com.

For professional accrediation please click here.

Lene Berg, Anders Restad and Anders Eiebakke
to exhibit within Manifesta 8
Curators: Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Chamber of Public Secrets and transit.org
Murcia, Spain
9 October 2010–9 January 2011
Press Days: 7 and 8 October
Opening Date: 9 October

Due to the General Strike, scheduled for 29 September 2010 in Spain, Manifesta 8 has decided to postpone its date of opening to 9 October and its press days to 7 and 8 October.

Lene Berg , Anders Restad and Anders Eiebakke have been invited to participate in Manifesta 8, taking place in the region of Murcia in Spain from 9 October 2010 to 9 January 2011. Divided in three different sections curated by the collectives Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Chamber of Public Secrets and transit.org, the biennial will explore the idea of a 21st-century Europe, its present-day boundaries with Northern Africa and its interrelations with the Maghreb region. Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum has invited Lene Berge and Anders Restad to exhibit within 'Backbench', a project that explores many problems related to what is referred to as 'the art system' and the tangled relational bonds between art and society. Within 'Backbench' Lene Berg will present the new work A Small Museum of Exceptions (working title). The work consists of a film and an installation of museum items relating to exceptions of rules. Anders Restad will contribute an article and a performance that will take place at Espacio AV in Murcia. The project is part of a series of works that appropriates the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art's archive. Within the section curated by Chamber of Public Secrets, Anders Eiebakke will develop a new radio-based work that will connect two radio stations, one in Spain other in Morocco, through readings of monologues written at the two locations.

For press enquiries related to the project, please contact press@manifesta8.es.

For accrediation please click here.

Verdensteatret to exhibit within the
8th Shanghai Biennale
Curators: Gao Shiming (Executive Curator), Fan Di'An and Li Lei
Shanghai Art Museum in Shanghai, People's Republic of China
23 October 2010–1 January 2011

The artist collective Verdensteatret was selected to participate in the 8th Shanghai Biennaletaking place from 23 October 2010 to 1 January 2011 at the Shanghai Art Museum in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. Curated by Gao Shiming (Executive Curator), Fan Di'Anand Li Lei, the 2010 edition of the biennial present the concept of 'Rehearsal', or the discussions around the art exhibition as a phenomenon, concerning how artists connect to the international art world today and how the art world function as its own theatre. Within the biennial, Verdensteatret exhibits And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing, an installation consisting of a multitude of kinetic sculptures/machines and sound featuring a landscape of highly original sculptures, pre-cinematic animation, puppetry, music, lights and shadowplay. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

From 27 August to 24 October, Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm, Sweden holds a solo exhibition by Ida Ekblad. Curated by Sara Arrhenius, Director and Camilla Larsson, Curator of Bonniers Konsthall and titled 'Ida Ekblad' the exhibition presents specially commissioned works crafted from found elements collected in the streets of Stockholm. Old bicycles, concrete foundations and other objects obtained in dumpsters in the city serve as the work's building elements together with classical materials such as canvas and paint. The exhibition will be the first presentation of the Norwegian artist in Sweden and, according to its curator, 'will make public the young but multifaceted artistic production of Ekblad, infusing traditional techniques as painting and sculpture with new vigour'. The exhibition will be inaugurated by the Norwegian performance artist Nils Bech.

Matias Faldbakken is invited to hold a solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany as curated by Rein Wolfs, the institution's Artistic Director. Entitled 'That Death of Which One Does Not Die', the exhibition presents newly commissioned works by the artist from the series Garbage Bag Drawings. Comprised of abstract renderings of abbreviations and acronyms on large garbage bags, the works are situated throughout the main wing of the institution to present a counterpoint to prevailing concepts of the exhibition space. The exhibition will also present an installation work created in collaboration withAnders Nordby.

Further, from 26 September to 14 November, Matias Faldbakken will present the solo exhibition 'War After Peace (After War)' at the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein in Aachen, Germany. Curated by Dorothea Jendricke, Director NAK, the exhibition will present the works See You On The Front Page ... #4, COLORED Tiles, VIDEO: Movie upon Movie and Screw Piece(s).

Until 5 September, de Appel Arts Centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands presents 'Super Normal', a solo exhibition by Bjarne Melgaard. Curated by Ann Demeester, Director, de Appel the project originates in the mental world of Rod Bianco, Melgaard's semi-imaginary character who may simultaneously be regarded as a 'production unit'. Besides a series of sculptures, the exhibition includes a new series of photorealistic paintings that are overpainted with Melgaard's hallmark expressionistic iconography and vigorous linear gestures.

Kunstverein Arnsberg in Arnsberg, Germany is currently presenting 'Honky Tonk', a solo exhibition by Øystein Aasan. Curated by Vlado Velkov, Artistic Director, Kunstverein Arnsberg, the exhibition presents a new site-specific installation work titledHonky Tonk. The installation works as a barrier between the viewer and the physical properties of the work itself and that of the architecture of the exhbition space, leading the visitors to specific situations in which their movement within the space allows the perception and exploration of the work. Aasan has also produced a second installation for the office space of the Kunstverein which will permanently function for everyday use of the employees and guests of Kunstverein Arnsberg. 'Honky Tonk' stays on view until 19 September.

From 9 October to 21 November, Kunsthalle Winterthur in Winterthur, Switzerland will present a solo exhibition by Lars Laumann. Curated by Oliver Kielmayer, Curator, Kunsthalle Winterthur, the exhibition aims to provide the first comprehensive selection of Lars Laumann's work in Switzerland with the presentation of at least four video-works: Swedish Book Store, Berlinmuren, Shut up Child, This Ain't Bingo and Kari & Knut.

Artist-duo Elmgreen & Dragset will hold a solo exhibition at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe, Germany from November 2010 to March 2011. The exhibition curated by Andreas F. Beitin, Director of ZKM and titled 'Celebrity – The One and the Many', will be the duo's largest solo museum exhibition to date. 'Celebrity' will be comprised of two large installations: an open, labyrinthian structure and a four-story apartment building, which will be visible mostly from the outside of the museum. The building will work as a stage for various scenes and dramas, visible for the audience through its windows.

John Hansard Gallery in Southampton, UK will present a solo exhibition by Caroline Bergvall from 7 September to 23 October. Curated by Stephen Foster, Director, the John Hansard Gallery, and titled 'Can't Get You Out of My' presents a mixed media installation comprised of an audiophonic piece and visual writings. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication that will include a CD of mixed sound-text materials from the show by a commissioned DJ.

Between 19 October and 19 November, Ståle Stenslie presents a solo exhibition at Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Curated by Jurij Krpan, Director Kapelica Gallery, and titled 'The Blind Theatre – Psychoplastic Sculptures', the exhibition presents the installation The Blind Theatre, an interactive and sensorial, computer based work that, using a body suit, completely immerses the viewer in a story told through touch and binaural, three-dimensional sound.

Continuing through 7 November, Åsa Sonjasdotter exhibitis within 'EATLACMA' at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles, CA, USA. The projects exhibited within 'EATLACMA' consider food as a common ground that explores the social role of art and ritual in community and human relationships and consist of artist's gardens planted and harvested on the museum campus, public events and an exhibition. Within 'EATLACMA', Sonjasdotter exhibits Potatofield, a Solution. Inspired by Agnes Denes' Wheatfield, the project presents an average looking potato field developed in collaboration with the farmers' collective The Communities of The Potato Park in Cuzco, Peru. 'EATLACMA' is curated by Fallen Fruit and Michele Urton, Curator LACMA and includes works by Lauren Bon, Materials and Applications,Fallen Fruit and The National Bitter Melon Council.

Curator Win Van den Abbeele invited Marte Johnslien to participate in 'Lonely at the Top: Modern Dialectic', an exhibition that celebrates the centenary of the birth of Renaat Braem, one of Belgium's best-known architects. 'Modern Dialectic' brings Braem's modernist formal idiom face to face with work by contemporary artists that expose a number of paradoxes and create a view of modernism and the social utopia of that movement. For the exhibition Johnslien produced a new series of small-scale sculptures titled Monument to the Right Angle produced from certain parameters derived from Braem's work and his connection to Le Corbusier. 'Modern Dialect' will be held from 10 September to 14 November in three venues: the top floors of the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA), CC Nova in Hoboken and on the Braem site itself. Other participating artists are Corey McCorkle, Tim Etchells and Suzanne Krieman.

In the context of the artist collective Henry VIII's Wives, Rachel Dagnall is currently exhibiting the photo series Iconic Moments of the 20th Century within 'Rude Britannia: British Comic Art' on view at Tate Britain in London, UK until 5 September. Iconic Moments of the 20th Century is composed of photos of elderly people recreating famous or iconic 20th century moments and was first exhibited within 'Evolution Isn't over Yet' at the Market Gallery in 2000. Curated by Martin Myrone, Curator, Tate, 'Rude Britannia' aims to offer a dynamic, surprising and challenging overview of the role of humour in British culture over the centuries. Other exhibiting artists are Donald McGill, Aubrey Beardsley and Sarah Lucas, among others.

From 2 October 2010 to 9 January 2011 Moderna Museet in Stockholm presents 'The Moderna Exhibition 2010'. Curated by Fredrik Liew, Curator, Swedish & Nordic Art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm the exhibition aims to be a contribution to the debate on Swedish contemporary art and although it does not present any specific, overall theme or common denominator, the selection was based on a few fundamental questions around the specificities of being an artist in Sweden and the notion of local production in an increasingly globalised world. Within 'The Moderna Exhibition 2010', the artist duo Book & Hedén presents Bexell's Stones, a Monument Out of Sight, an installation depicting the story of Alfred Bexell, who ordered hundreds of proverbs and names to be chiseled into rocks and boulders in the forests within his property in Sweden.

Mattias Faldbakken and Gardar Eide Einarsson have been invited by cuators João Fernandes, Director, Museu Fundação de Serralves and Óscar Faria to exhibit within 'To the Arts, Citizens!' at Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporênea in Porto, Portugal. Taking place from 19 November 2010 to 13 March 2011, the show will focus on some of the intersections between art and politics. 'To the Arts, Citizens!' will exhibit works by artists born after 1961 – the year of the construction of the Berlin Wall – alongside an historical section, where posters, magazines and artists' publications will demonstrate how previous generations of artists dealt with political issues throughout art history. 'To the Arts, Citizens!' will be accompanied by a cycle of films, conferences and debates. Other exhibitng artists are Carlos Motta, Claire Fontaine, Sam Durant and Hito Steyerl.

At invitation of Helmut Batista, Director, Capacete Entretenimientos, curator Geir Haraldseth will present a workshop and a lecture at Teatro Arena, in São Paulo, Brazil on October 2010, as part of the São Paulo Biennial. Capacete is responsible for a series of lectures and workshops that function as a discursive platform for the biennial. For his participation, Haraldseth will focus on formal and informal settings for distributing and reproducing information and the mechanisms of power involved in such operations, especially within the field of art. The project is supported by 03–funding*.

Kurt Johannessen has been invited by curator Victor Petrov to participate in the 2010 edition of the International Festival of Performance Art Navinki, taking place between 26 and 31 August 2010 in Minsk, Belarus. Further in 2010, the artist participates in Shenzhen Action and in Guangzhou Live 010, a new international action art event that, besides presenting works of action art, will feature discussions, lectures and workshops at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. For both events Johannessen will develop new works. These projects are supported by 03–funding*

From 7 October 2010 to 04 September Jan Christensen will exhibit within 'Intensif Station' at the Künstlerräume im K21 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Curated by Susanne Meyer-Büser the show introduces a new display concept, where each room will be dedicated to one artist and the spaces will be realized in close collaboration with the artists, either showing an installation or a series of works. Within 'Intensif Station' Jan Christensen will exhibit his recent work that combines the sketchiness of notebook scribbles with the decorative monumentality of mural painting. Among other exhibiting artists are Thomas Hirschhorn, Jeff Wall and Nathalie Djurberg.

Matias Faldbakken will exhibit within 'The Second Today's Documents' taking place at the Beijing Today Art Museum in Beijing, China from 18 September to 24 October. Curated by Huang Du and Jonathan Watkins, Director of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK, the exhibition presents works by approximately sixty Chinese and international artists based on the notion of 'negotiations'. Within 'The Second Today's Documents' Faldbakken presents the installation work Tarp Piece. The project is supported by 03–funding*

At invitation of curators Sergio Allessandro and Abdellah Karroum, Heidi Nikolaisen will exhibit within 'Marrakech a Palermo – A proposal for articulating works and places (part2)', an exhibition taking place at Palazzo Riso/Gam, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia in Palermo, Italy from 10 July to 28 November. The exhibition is part of the project 'OTHERS – Le Biennali d'arte di Marrakech, Istanbul, Atene a Palermo e Catania', which presents a selection of works from recent biennials in Istanbul, Athens, and Marrakech. Within 'Marrakech a Palermo' Nikolaisen exhibits the work We Belong to the Same Tree which incorporates elements from letters, passports and photographs to depict the meaning of a single persons value in history.

At the invitation of its director, Edward Balassaninan, the Armenian Centre for Contemporary Experimental Art in Yerevan presents a collaborative project by Unni Gjertsen and Swedish artist Liv Strand. Gjertsen will present Looking/Walking Back/Forward (working title), a video-installation made of a three-channel video projection and text stickers. The work is based on a research trip to Armenia in June 2009. Gjertsen and Strand will collaborate on a publication that includes discussions around formative texts and contributions by Armenian writers. The project is supported by 03–funding*

From September 2010 to June 2011, Sara Eliassen will participate in the Whitney Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA. During her stay in New York, the artist will further develop the projectThe Screen Is Not Neutral exploring how moving images can be used when not dominated by artificially constructed values aimed at enhancing our lives as consumers. The study program will result in a Studio Program exhibition, held in May.

Artists and designers are invited to submit research and production proposals to become a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie. Candidates can either apply with a topic of their own or for a project formulated by the institute itself. In order to realise these projects, the Jan van Eyck offers the necessary made-to-measure artistic, technical and auxiliary preconditions. Candidates applying for Fine Art, Design or Theory are asked to propose an individual research project. They can also indicate their interest in participating in one of the projects that are offered by the department of their choice or other departments. The academic year runs from 1 January to 31 December. Research candidates can apply for a one-year or two-year research period starting annually on 1 January. It is also possible to apply to do research for a different period and with a different starting date. More information about the application procedure can be found here.

The Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta invites artists to apply for its themathic and self-drected residency programmes.
THEMATIC RESIDENCY
'What's Love Got To Do With It?' with Ashley Neese
Program dates: 5 January 5 to 22 February
Application deadline: 31 August
This is a residency dedicated to the investigation, critique, and cultivation of love in contemporary art. Through a variety of group activities and individual creative projects, participants will reflect on what it means to love, and how artists can express love in effective ways.

SELF-DIRECTED RESIDENCY WINTER
Program dates: 28 February to 30 March 2011
Application deadline: 1 November

For more information and to apply please visit www.banffcentre.ca/va or send an email to arts_info@banffcentre.ca.

The Neue Gesellschaft fuer Bildende Kunst (NGBK) in Berlin, are looking for situation specific and/or participatory ideas, visions, experiments and interventions which address the future meaning of 'public' in Berlin's public Underground Network. They can range from being short, interventionistic artistic reactions to specific occurrences on the Underground to being long term collaborations aimed at creating sustainable relationships to Underground staff and/or users over a number of years. A total budget of 30.000 Euro for artist's fees, production, travel and accommodation is available for a maximum of four projects to be realised from May to December 2011. Deadline for applications is 01. October 2010. for more information please visit www.ngbk.de.

The Vanuatu Pacifica Foundation and Waesisi Center for The Arts is a new art foundation created with the aim of fostering exchange of ideas and activities between the cultures of Oceania and the international arts community. Located in the island of Tannathe within 400 acres of untouched beachfront property, the foundation develops an artist residency and cross-cultural arts center. The Vanuatu Pacifica Foundation accepts applications from artists, writers, composers, filmmakers, playwrights, etc. For more information please visit vpf.weebly.com.

*03–funding: The purpose of the 03–funds, as allocated by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to OCA, is to further develop cooperation and professional networking between OCA and the constituency of artists, independent cultural producers and organisations that are located in designated countries or associated with 03–countries. This includes but is not limited to professional research visits by cultural producers, artists and curators, short-term residencies for cultural producers and artists, and the development of seminars, conferences, art projects, workshops, etc. that focus on the further development of professional exchange and networking between and among countries, project development and pilot projects on an international scale.

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